Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-08-03
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THE jury in the celebrated case Of ALI.
Mccoy, charged with the murder of DR..
Northrup, of Portsmouth, o., returned q
verdict Of murder in the second degree.
CHAs. H. REED, Guiteau's counsel, has
been adjudged insane.
THE great Tehauntepec snip railway
project, the accomplishment of which was
the last ambition Of Capt. James B. Fads'
busy life, is not to be allowed to drop on
account of his death. A meeting was held
in New York at which steps were taken to
place the enterprise on an active footing.
DIR. ST. JOHN, who assisted William
Nc Garigle, the Chicago boodler, to escape,
has been arrested and placed under $780,
600 bonds, D. B. Fisk going his security.
He waived examination. No attempt was
made to arrest Janitor Dell, who was with
him that night, though warrant is out
for him. He omplans of being sick and
is under guard at the hospital, pending an
examination to see if he is able to be
moved. DR.. st. Johns attorney is w. f.
Foster, of anarchist trial notoriety.
GRACE PORTER was married at Omaha
five months go to James Young, team
ster. They moved to Kansas City, where
they quarreled, and Young threatened to
desert his wife. Mrs. Young visited a for
tune teller, who told her to cut finger
and put three drops of her blood in some-
thing that her husband would drink. She
said this would prove sure preventative
of his leaving her. Mrs. Young gave q
cup containing the cory draught to one Of
the walters where they board. She told
her to give Young his coffee in that cup.
The waitress, becoming ala med, notified
the police that a woman was trying to poi
son her husband. Mrs. Young was ar
rested, but upon the facts being ascertained
she was released.
ADvICEs from Candahar state that the
Ameer of Afghanistan has posted proc
lamation in the bazaar in that city, in
forming his subjects that the British gov
ernment is heading six infantry divisions,
each consisting of nine regiments with
cavalry and artillery in readiness to march
in Afghanistan 10 suppress the revolt of
the Ameer's enemies in the interior. The
insurgents in Afehanistan have blocked
the roads between Candahar and Judea.
The city of Peshawur, in the North
western part of India, in the Punjah, is
infected with cholera of the worst type.
Three hundred deaths from that disease
occurred during July.
ALL the members of the Italian cabinet
have resigned on account of the death Of
the premier, Signor Depretia. Sgnor
Crispi, minister of the interior in the De-
pretia government, will form a new minis
try. composed mainly of his recent asso.
ciates in the government
REPRESENTATIVE BoUTELLE, of Blaine,
denies that he was instrumental in sup.
pressing the opposition to the Sherman in
dorsement resolution in the Toledo con-
venton. The Blade, of that city, asserts
that Mr.. Blaine, before leaving for Europe,
said to Mr.. Murat Halstead that Sherman
was entitled TO an should receive an in
dorsement from the convention.
SENATOR LELAND STANFORD owned up
to the Pacific railroad commission at San
Francisco, that his individual holdings in
the Southern Pacific amounted to $32, ,00O,-
900. And yet, says the Chicago Times,
the same Stanford has the infinite gall to
demand that be and his associates shall
not be compelled TO pay their debts to the
government. For sublime assurance the
Pacific railroad pintocrats beat the
world